Comments on: Battlefield 3/Heroes/1943/Bad Company 2

By: bleb

bleb — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:21:48 +0000

- Sometime between January and April 2010, Battlefield 3 is confirmed and goes gold (meaning it is definitely coming to stores)

- A period of rumors, PC upgrades, and anxious people occurs

- A demo is released, July – September 2010

- Battlefield 3 is released in late November – December 2010 However, if things don’t go as planned, the game could be delayed up until March 2011!

Winter 2010 is the most legitimate option for release as of now!

http://enterbf3.com – Battlefield 3 (source)

By: megaman

megaman — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:27:12 +0000

I’ve got more than 450 hours on BF2 and I pretty much played and enjoyed every class during that time. I’ve had tons of fun, and I’m going to buy BF3 if it turns out to be close enough to BF2. I didn’t like 2142, partly because of the futuristic setting (strange, because I usually like SciFi), and I’ve played more than enough WW II games. Just give me BF3 that is like BF2 with nerfed jets, smaller patch sizes, better (working would actually be sufficient) server browser, and a slightly more refined communications menu to coordinate squads and teams. But even without it I’d probably buy it :p

By: Dreamhacker

Dreamhacker — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:57:00 +0000

BF3, what do we want?

A BF2 clone, really.

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:09:15 +0000

Lean would also be nice.

By: Cptn.Average

Cptn.Average — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:57:28 +0000

Special issue gadgets = good
Helicopters that can take multiple stinger missiles to the face and not care = bad
APM’s you can sneak past if careful = good
Switching auxilary grenades for auxilary rockets = bad

I hope they’ve learnt this.

By: Lars BR

Lars BR — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:31:59 +0000

Gustav Halling, who works on BF1943, just posted a BF3 confirmation on
his blog.

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:57:50 +0000

I wouldn’t know.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:50:27 +0000

@walter so project reality mod by default then?

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:46:57 +0000

Some suggestions for nerfing jets:
- Land to rearm and refuel
- Special pilot class (limited to number of aircrat)
- Bombing targets have to be painted by spec ops and/or commander

IMO the above changes would make the jets more of teamplayer and would still retain their air superiority.

By: Snuffy (the Evil)

Snuffy (the Evil) — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:43:19 +0000

An announcement that all previous titles will be able to be activated and downloaded off of Steam. It fixes the issue with having to manually download 1 gig patches, anyway. Besides, BF:V and 1942 need some more players.

By: Rich_P

Rich_P — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:05:28 +0000

As Fitt said, modern airpower has logistical limitations not present in Battlefield 2. So yeah, fighter jets are absurdly powerful, but it takes a lot of effort to even deploy them. This trade-off could be best-modeled in an FPSMMO where you could actually have full airfields, refueling requirements, larger maps that permit a faster flight speed, etc.

DC’s air power balance was perfect. A truly skilled pilot could dominate, but a newbie jackass would probably get shot down by the (awesome) mobile AA units. The skill curve wasn’t binary, so to speak.

In any event, I hope DICE totally revamps the vehicle spawn system. Maybe individual vehicle timers like PlanetSide? That would totally eliminate vehicle camping.

I also have zero tolerance for bloated and buggy online games. With so many studios getting it right for years (Valve), it’s sad when an otherwise decent game is marred by a laughably-deficient server browser and rampant exploits. So more polish this time around, DICE.

By: Krondonian

Krondonian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:46:51 +0000

Thanks folks. I was actually just thinking about it again after reading Chris’ Reticule article, and it does sound interesting.

Might install 1942 for the first time in the mean time to get a flavour.